With the expansion of the World Wide Web and the Internet, computer networks have become very large and complex, making them impossible to manage manually.
This information is then presented to network administrators in an easy to understand and accessible manner to help them quickly identify and remediate problems.
Monitoring can reveal faults in the network such as failed or misconfigured nodes, performance bottlenecks, malicious actors, intrusions etc.
Change control can enable audit trails which has applications during a forensic investigation after a network intrusion.
Cybersecurity: This function enabled the software to use all the data gathered from the nodes to identify security risks in an IT environment.